Chris Aldrich

@TerribleMia You've got your own site and control your URLs, so you're definitely on it! And you've got Webmentions for additional icing on the cake. Kudos! I'm glad you've managed to get things set up and working for yourself. It definitely helps to have small bite-sized pieces of technology to rely on to get it all going.

You're right that it's a lot of work on individuals, but there are some emerging platforms/providers attempting to make all of this technology easier on the general public who don't have the time, technical skills, or desire to maintain any of their own systems. Micro.blog is one of these options to be sure. A few others can be found here: https://indieweb.org/Quick_Start With available small building blocks that interoperate, hopefully it will be easier for companies to provide a variety and plurality of tools to make the entire enterprise easier for all of our friends and family.

Congratulations again!

@edheil Because of the IndieWeb principle of plurality, you've got a tremendous amount of choice. Part of the issue is that there are SO MANY options and potential combinations of doing things.

What do you want the site to do? How much admin time to you want to spend on it? How flexible and modifiable do you want it to be? What skills do you have? What skills do you want to work on?

Both of the options you mention are excellent, though there's probably more immediate flexibility in WordPress with plugins. If you want something with no admin, but still some reasonable flexibility then micro.blog is a great way to go. (All three support a very broad range of all the IndieWeb building blocks. Of course, this doesn't even touch the custom-built or static site generator spaces which are also available options. And who's to say you should only have one site? ;)

This is a great question to ask in the IndieWeb Dev chat channel for advice from a bigger group of people with a tremendous wealth and diversity of building experience. https://chat.indieweb.org/dev

I didn't think Building a Second Brain came out until mid-June?! Though I have seen a copy circulating in the wild via Twitter... I'm really curious to know what you think of it. Would you use the broader template of what he's selling?

@EleanorKonik I got an invite to this and thought it might be your cup of tea:
World Building: Making the Future Real https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-building-making-the-future-real-tickets-310706640927

@ASpittel The best beginner projects are building things to use for one's self. They could try building and improving their own websites. Indieweb.org has lots of ideas, open source code samples, and a helpful community. #hacktoberfest

@hankchizljaw There's also @withknown & @WordPress which also have webmention support for site-to-site communication in addition to all the other #IndieWeb tech @keithjgrant mentioned. Next we just need the microsub solution widely distributed https://aaronparecki.com/2018/03/12/17/building-an-indieweb-reader

@outlandishjosh I could easily see @getpantheon building IndieWeb stacks with @WordPress +Plugins or @Drupal or @backdropcms + https://www.drupal.org/project/indieweb to expand this type of decentralized web interaction in a way similar to @microdotblog

@cogdog No, I meant the main body text on that (and other pages). Compare the text "It’s useful to have an entrance gate..." with the cartoon background to "Example for "Building a Front Entrance..." which has a solid background.

@actualham That is spectacularly awesome!! If you ever wanted to part with it, I'm building an archival collection of original documents at the heart of 20th century communications and I don't yet have an original of Baran's paper yet. #informationtheory

@RodneyMushero Physical location is mentioned here: https://www.jadin.me/open-domains-lab/ I'm not sure if there's a virtual one set up (yet). If you'd like to interact directly to talk about what you're building or ask questions, there's a chat set up at: https://chat.indieweb.org/indieweb/

@khurtwilliams @koolinus In case you'd like to see a comparison of the web we lost to the new #IndieWeb that we're building, this overview chart can be helpful: https://indieweb.org/lost_infrastructure

@kaushalmodi I know that @_dgoldsmith has gotten Webmention working with Hugo before, presuming that's what you're building on top of. https://chat.indieweb.org/ is also a good place to ask.

@sivavaid There _is_ a movement that's been building over the past few years called the #IndieWeb that is encouraging exactly this thing. They're creating new, easier-to-use, and open technology to replace what we've lost: https://indieweb.org/lost_infrastructure

@MorrisPelzel @hypothes_is I'm building toward the example in the closing paragraphs that better exposes the functionality in a website to website manner without the need for a third party service (i.e. a more decentralized manner.)
Since I can link directly now (!): http://boffosocko.com/2018/01/23/fragmentions-for-better-highlighting-and-direct-references-the-web/#notice%20that%20small%20quotation%20bubbles